Most
photorealist painters work directly from photographs or digital computer images - either by using traditional grid techniques, or by projecting colour slide imagery onto the canvas.
Not exact matches
Ms. Flack enjoys the distinction of being the first
photorealist painter whose
work was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection.
This installment of the New
Work series presents recent compositions by leading
photorealist painter Robert Bechtle — 32 years after the San Francisco — born artist's first exhibition at SFMOMA.
She was the first
photorealist painter to have
work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art.
[6][23] This internationalization of photorealism is also seen in
photorealist events, such as The Prague Project, in which American and non-American
photorealist painters have traveled together to locations including Prague, Zurich, Monaco and New York, to
work alongside each other in producing
work.
The great German
painter Gerhard Richter is represented in this week's sales by a few of his collector - catnip Abstraktes Bilds, but his top lot is in fact an example of his historic
photorealist works from earlier in his career, when he was upsetting the applecart of Modern European painting.